1. Racism is just as bad as tribalism. Only those who are benefiting from tribalism don't think so. Those of us who are victimized by tribalism don't see it as any different from racism.

2. Colonial taxes were used to build schools, roads, airports, houses, railways, stadiums and other infrastructure. The Muzungu put the infrastructure to much better use than Mwafika has done.

Institutions like Kenyatta hospital were built for Africans. Mwafrika has not built anything of that stature.

All the stadiums in Kenya were built by Muzungu. Only Kasarani and Nyayo were built after independence.

Most low income public housing in Nairobi was built by Muzungu. Mwafrika has left housing to individual landlords and slumlords to build substandard houses.



Jomo, Moi, Kibaki and UK have all committed genocide as well. I would venture to say they have killed more Kenyans than Muzungu ever did.

Waggalla masscare 1984, Kisumu Massacre 1969, Likoni Massacre 1991, Land clashes, PEV 2008, all the people killed during political protests , all the political prisoners killed and so forth .................

But the white man grabbed the whole of kenya, a whole 580,000km2 or 481 million acres and designated it as crown land to do as he wished and put the natives in native villages to provide slave labour to the white mans coffee, tea, sugarcane, cotton, sisal etc farms and ranches. How could land grabbing get worse than that where a foreigner grabs a whole country?

You also need to realize that that was a different time. It was during the era where you could conquer a territory and make it yours. The Romans did it, Alexander the Great, British even tried to conquer North America... The sad thing about now is that the land grabbers are our own people and going against the law. The reason it is so hard to win these many cases against colonization and slavery is because it was not against any law. Most will just remain to be very dark chapters of history, from even before the days of Jesus and that's all. Never forget that the human race is the most evil species on earth.

The white man did not grab all of Kenya. he simply declared it part of the British empire. A declaration that had little impact on most Kenyans. In fact for many Kenyans their encounter with the white man was about the white man converting him to Christianity and making them go to school.

My grandparents would've been illiterate peasants had they not been forced to go to school. In fact in my area, muzungu went around from home to home forcing parents to send their children to school during the 1930s and 1940s. Those Mwafrika who showed aptitude in school were sent to the UK to study how to govern the country. Some were sent to military academies in the UK. Some were sent to police academies and some were sent to Polytechnics. A lucky few were sent to Universities in the UK. So muzungu did not just want to exploit Kenyans. He had a long term view. He wanted Kenya to be part of the British empire but give Mwafrika the ability to properly govern his own territory. By the late 1950s, Kenyans were being given key positions in govt. As I said, Matiba was appointed PS.


Muzungu built hospitals, schools, Universities, housing , stadiums and other infrastructure specifically for Mwafrika. In fact when KNH was built, it was called Native civil hospital;

The slave labor issue is overblown. Africans actually gained food security because they learned better animal husbandry and crop production. Infant mortality rates were reduced significantly due to better access to health.

Kenya becoming a British colony was not a bad thing on balance. We benefited from it more than we lost.

Today there are some countries that are still colonies or territories of Western Nations

USA has: Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands ....

The UK Has : Montesserat, Bermuda, Anguilla, Cayman, Virgin Islands ......

France has : Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Caledonia, Re Union ......

Ask any of the Mwafrikas who live in these territories whether they would like Independence and 80% will give a resounding NO. They have seen the mess other countries have created with Independence.

On evidence, it appears Kenya would be better off if we were still British territory. We likely would have the same freedoms we have today but the country would be better run.

I disagree with the notion that Mwafrika is less intelligent. However I think most of us are incapable of good governance. We think that having a member of our tribe in power is more important than good governance. Thats one reason why Mwafrika countries are sheet-holes.

We lack the willingness to plan ahead and delay gratification. Thats why when a Mwafrika leader engages in corruption, he pretty much loots everything in sight without any regard for what might happen in the future.

I am not disagreeing on your point that black leadership has been bad, nay, terrible.

I'm disagreeing with your insistence that like for like our leaders are far worse than the Brits. The Brits killed far more than our post Independence governments.

From the time of using force to gain territory, using force to punish (The British in their punitive expeditions killed thousands in the whole country)...

Matiba was only appointed PS in the run up to Independence. We already had Africans running the executive in concert with the governor even before he became PS. His appointment was part of the Africanisation drive those days.

And yes, it was very possible to keep 3 tribes in concentration camps. It happened. Soldiers were all over plus the police and tribal police. Remember even Idi Amin was part of the army sent to crush the Mau Mau??